Every year I attend the AMC Best Picture Showcase - an event where over 2 Saturdays, AMC screens all the Best Picture Nominees. This year Roma won't be screened because Netflix didn't let AMC show the flick in their theatres in the first place. So 7 of the 8 nominees are a part of the Showcase. 3 nominees - The Favourite, BlacKkKlansman, and Bohemian Rhapsody were screened earlier today. The other 4 will be next Saturday.

Here are the reviews I posted about today's nominees:

The Favourite

So... office politics and lesbo porn took a trip to the Getty museum. They wanted a slow burn, but I think someone realized the heat wasn't getting to the oven and just turned it off. Two hours of weak build up with zero resolution whatsoever. Nice costumes... that's about the only positive I can say. If you haven't seen this, no need to waste your time. Just stare at Emma Stone's picture for 2 hours.

Grade: D+

BlacKkKlansman

I thought 90% of this movie was well put together with some funny bits and the obvious juxtapositional irony. Lee put the two sides of white power and black power directly next to each other as though he was saying you're both a bunch of clowns following your own flavors of hate. Had Lee left it at that, it would have been perfectly fine as a movie.

But then, for whatever reason, he just HAD to put that ending in. Now, I get it, he wanted to show the same fight continues today, granted. But that was the point where, to me, Lee absolutely took sides. That shouldn't be of any real surprise considering it's Spike Lee, but it just absolutely ruined the previous two hours for me. It said hate is ok if you're on the correct side, which only fosters more hate. You want to know why there's so much hate today? That's the reason. Nobody thinks they're using their hate in the wrong direction. But hate, like the One Ring, only destroys no matter who tries to wield it seemingly for good. Hate and racism are wrong in EVERY direction. Only when we truly realize that will they ever be defeated.

Grade: D-, because hate of someone else's hate is still hate, and still wrong.

Bohemian Rhapsody

Firstly, this is not the story of Queen, it's the story of Freddy Mercury's life. As biopics go, this was pretty good. Quite authentic as I understand. The movie moved along pretty well. Rami Malek melted into the role. Very strong candidate for Best Actor. If you don't like Queen's music, stay away, otherwise it's worth a look.

Beside the recent news of a huge "HATE" against MCU's Captain Marvel movie, because of racism and feminism on the film, The first reactions to the movie are showed up. And what the critics said: the movie is great. Just wait what the people would said.
In my opinion, I'll watch the Captain Marvel movie.